5 best Astute Graphics plugins for Adobe Illustrator

 Design 5 best Astute Graphics plugins for Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is great and beautiful, but alas, not perfect. When the standard tools are not enough for the current tasks, Astute Graphics comes to the rescue, which develops plug-ins that can greatly speed up the work process and simplify it. ...

15 best lectures from Dribbble Meetup Russia 2015

 Design 15 best lectures from Dribbble Meetup Russia 2015 Last Saturday, May 21, Dribbble Meetup Russia 2016 took place at the @ Mail.ru office. Until the lectures are available individually and are presented in a convenient format for viewing, we suggest you watch the 15 best lectures from last year’s ...

18 best web design books for the beginner

 Book 18 best web design books for the beginner Practicing designer Aleksey Zakharenko has compiled a list of the best books on web design that you should read to stay on top and become a good web designer. Almost all I have either read, or am reading now, or bought ...

10 movies every designer should * watch

 Don’t wait for a movie about Helvetica or dull documentaries from Netflix. Everything is clear with them, I want to tell you about films that give me cosmic pleasure from watching as a designer, inspire and show how to work. Everything you’ve seen about cyberpunk is based on The Runner: ...

How to use UX / UI patterns + 11 sites for finding new ideas

 The collection contains not just pictures, but approaches to creating user interface components – an arsenal of thoughtful interface solutions from international projects. How to apply UX / UI patterns in your work UI patterns are component systems, like UI kits, they can be downloaded and used in your projects ...

How to monetize digital art with NFT

 In March 2021, many discussed the big news: the American company Injective Protocol acquired an authorized copy of the work of street artist Banksy and arranged it to be burned live. After being burned, the digital version of the work was turned into an NFT, a non-fungible token. NFT is ...

10 key principles of UX design

 There are many UX principles and laws that a designer must follow. In this article, we have selected a few rules that, in our opinion, are the most important and that we personally strive to regularly introduce into our work. These theories and principles were written not only by all ...

Product Designers: 5 Important Facts When Looking For A New Job

 A year ago, I was leading a design team for a small startup in Israel. Then the Covid-19 pandemic started and I was suddenly out of work. I am a mother of four (five if you count a dog), so I was looking for a job as quickly as possible, ...

Simple video editors for beginners

 Thanks to the advancement of technology, almost anyone can shoot high-definition videos on a smartphone camera. However, each video needs processing, and it is difficult for novice users to find software that would combine convenience and functionality. In this review, we looked at which video editing software is suitable for ...

disassembling interfaces from a scientific point of view (# 2/3)

 In the previous article, we dealt with the theory – using the basics of psychophysiology, we figured out why the beautiful seems to be convenient. Today we want to talk about the main methods that help to control the visual perception of a person. These methods can be used in ...